Protect the Great Barrier Reef

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#ReefReels

#ReefReels is the best thing to happen to the reef since Finding Nemo! GetUp teamed with Tropfest, the world's biggest short film festival, to find stories that inspire people to protect the Reef. Over 50 Australian filmmakers used their creativity and talent to show off our world-famous World Heritage Area, and why it needs to be saved.

Contact your bank

Adani has been exposed for what it is - a ruthless, greedy operator with an atrocious human rights and environmental record. It wants to build one of the biggest coal mines in the world in Queensland - a project that means shipping millions of tonnes of coal through our precious Great Barrier Reef every year. To finance the project, Adani still needs around $10b in funding - and the Big 4 Australian Banks are the most likely to make it happen. Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ, and NAB could be all that stand between Adani and our Great Barrier Reef.

Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Citizen Funded Journalism

When in opposition, Shadow Immigration Minister Scott Morrison would cry "boats" as loud and as often as he could. But now the Abbott Government has cast that shadow over their asylum seeker policies. Already more than 4,700 people have donated to fund high quality independent journalism, dedicated to finding out what happens inside our detention centres and stories of the people confined within them, but we need ongoing support to continue the work that's already started.

Media Acess Denied

Journalists are being referred to federal police for "unauthorised disclosure of information" relating to immigration policies, and the media has been forbidden access to Government-run facilities, as part of a deliberate attempt by the Immigration Minister to suppress any information about the government's notorious offshore detention centres. If Immigration Minister Peter Dutton truly has nothing to hide, he should immediately grant the media access to Manus Island and Nauru, and not seek to persecute journalists for disclosing unfavourable information.

Our National Shame

It's clear the Government is failing to ensure even the most basic of care for asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru. Earlier this year, violence on Manus Island left one man dead and 62 people injured. Meanwhile on Nauru, a report that was never meant to be seen by the public, reveals the dire state of healthcare available to asylum seeker children, babies and pregnant women inside the Nauru detention centre. It is shameful that we are still sending people to these detention centres when we can not guarantee their safety, or their health.

J'accuse

A group of concerned organisations and individuals – including legal and health professional, faith leaders and academics – have penned an open letter accusing the Government of wilfully and deliberately pursuing a policy known to cause severe mental and physical health problems.
The open letter, convened by Professor Louise Newman AM, is addressed to the Federal Government and the Opposition, calling on them to abandon the policy of mandatory detention.

Climate

We Made History

On September 21, tens of thousands of Australians took part in the global movement the media are calling "the largest ever climate march in history". It was a powerful message to world leaders that echoed around the globe, demonstrating that we - the people- are up for confronting the challenge of climate change.

Australians for Climate Action

Over 97% of climate scientists say that climate change is occurring and is human induced. The science is now unequivocal and deserves respect from our government. We're asking for stronger, meaningful climate action, which is in the national and global interest.

Economic Fairness

Bust the Budget

The Abbott Government promised a fair budget where everyone would "share the burden". But the 2014 Budget has been widely condemned as unfair — disproportionately burdening lower-income families, students, young job-seekers, pensioners, and the sick, and leading us down the path of US-style social insecurity.
Australians take pride in being the nation of the fair go. A place where everyone is given the chance to thrive, not just corporations and the wealthy; where life's misfortunes, whether from illness or job loss, don't lead to permanent or abject poverty. That's why over 100,000 GetUp members are speaking up, banding together in the fight to save Medicare, our social safety net, and affordable higher education.

Protect the Pension

Hidden in the depths of the Abbott Government's unfair budget are significant changes to the age pension – cuts that will have dire repercussions for many older Australians.
We're joining forces with YOURLifeChoices to make sure these changes don't weasel their way through the Senate to become law when Parliament goes back next month.

Corporate Tax

Australia's top companies are forgoing billions in tax each year, with nearly a third paying less than 10 cents on the dollar. While Treasurer Hockey has acknowledged the need to do better, he's failed to take real action. We need to turn the Government's words on corporate tax dodging into action. Because when corporations don't pay their fair share, we're the ones who pick up the tab.

Better Power

Pledge to Switch

Origin, AGL and EnergyAustralia are playing dirty to attack the renewable energy target. If they get their way, Australia's growing renewable energy industry would be devastated, while they would hold onto their near-monopoly of a dirty, expensive fossil fuel sector. But these companies only exist because of public support. We need to speak up and let them know that if they attack renewables, people won't tolerate it.

Switch to Better Power

With Origin, AGL and EnergyAustralia attacking the Renewable Energy Target, it's time for a new consumer-based movement to save Australia's renewable energy future. Without one, we'll be left with a dirty, expensive fossil sector holding back our economy. Members in Victoria can switch their energy company now to save the RET, and save themselves money.

Data Retention

Citizens, not suspects

The Federal Government has introduced radical changes to Australia's surveillance and intelligence laws. Of course authorities should be given the powers they need to protect us, but what's being considered goes much further than that. Metadata may seem fairly harmless, but it can reveal a far more detailed picture of you than Mr Brandis would care to admit.

It's Time

Have you seen the marriage equality lovestory? Millions watched it and shared with their friends and family, helping to spread the word worldwide. Now let's make sure Australia puts marriage equality into law.

Coal Seam Gas

Stop CSG in the Great Artesian Basin

Australia's lifeblood - the Great Artesian Basin - is under threat from Santos' coal seam gas projects. A new report has confirmed Santos' Narrabri CSG project "could be enough to stop bores flowing throughout the basin, which is the sole water source for towns and farms across 22 per cent of Australia." Any risk to this water supply is simply unthinkable and unacceptable.

Stop fracking in Gloucester

AGL's coal seam gas project in Gloucester has been shut down following a major environmental breach. Hazardous BTEX chemicals (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes) were found in the water of two of AGL's wells. AGL discovered the chemicals on January 15, but failed to report them until almost two weeks later.
It's simple. We can't trust AGL.

Don't Risk Coal Seam Gas

What do Australian farmlands, healthy families and drinking water all have in common? They're all under threat from unregulated coal seam gas mining. GetUp members from NSW and QLD have bravely shared their story of what it's like to live in a community affected by CSG mining

Our team acknowledges that we meet and work on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We wish to pay respect to their Elders — past, present and future — and acknowledge the important role all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play within Australia and the GetUp community.